【正文】 ons strongly believed that conflict was beneficial to their organizations and that it promoted higher quality decision making than might be achieved in the absence of conflict. 　　Managers of forprofit organizations saw a different picture. They believed that conflict generally was damaging and usually led to poorquality decision making in their organizations. Schwenk interpreted these results in terms of the criteria for effective decision making suggested by the executives. In the profitseeking organizations, decisionmaking effectiveness was most often assessed in financial terms. The executives believed that consensus rather than conflict enhanced financial indicators. 　　In the notforprofit organizations, decisionmaking effectiveness was defined from the perspective of satisfying constituents. Given the plexities and ambiguities associated with satisfying many diverse constituents executives perceived that conflict led to more considered and acceptable decisions. 　　1. In the eyes of the author, conventional opinion on conflict is . 　　 A) wrong C) misleading 　　 B) oversimplified D) unclear 　　2. Professor Charles R. Schwenk39。s main target audience are middleclass Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life39。s lives. 　　Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual39。 therefore, he could repair it himself. 　　 A) considerable C) negligible 　　 B) appreciable D) invisible 【正確答案】：B【參考解析】：無(wú)第18題： My sister is quite ______ and plans to get an M. A. degree within one year. 　　 A) aggressive C) considerate 　　 B) enthusiastic D) ambitious 【正確答案】：C【參考解析】：無(wú)第19題： The manager tried to wave aside these issues as ______ details that would be settled later. 　　 A) versatile C) preliminary 　　 B) trivial D) alternate 【正確答案】：B【參考解析】：無(wú)第20題： His ______ was telling him that something was wrong. 　　 A) intuition C) inspiration 　　 B) hypothesis D) sentiment 【正確答案】：D【參考解析】：無(wú)第21題： This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important ______ of American life. 　　 A) fashions C) facets 　　 B) frontiers D) formats 【正確答案】：B【參考解析】：無(wú)第22題： Parents often faced the ______ between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noise and destructiveness. 　　 A) paradox C) dilemma 　　 B) junction D) premise 【正確答案】：D【參考解析】：無(wú)第23題： Clark felt that his ______ in one of the most dramatic medical experiments of all time was worth the suffering he underwent. 　　 A) apprehension C) presentation 　　 B) appreciation D) participation 【正確答案】：B【參考解析】：無(wú)第24題： As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly on the ______ of a brilliant career. 　　 A) threshold C) porch 　　 B) edge D) course 【正確答案】：C【參考解析】：無(wú)第25題： The ______ lawyer made a great impression on the jury. 　　 A) protecting C) defending 　　 B) guarding D) shielding 【正確答案】：A【參考解析】：無(wú)第26題： Very few people understood his lecture, the subject of which was very ______. 　　A) dim C) conspicuous 　　B) obscure D) intelligible 【正確答案】：B【參考解析】：無(wú)第27題： This movie is not ______ for children to see: it contains too much violence and too many love scenes. 　　 A) profound C) decent 　　 B) valid D) upright 【正確答案】：D【參考解析】：無(wú)第28題： The wood was so rotten that, when we pulled, it ______ into fragments. 　　A) broke off C) broke through 　　B) broke away D) broke up 【正確答案】：C【參考解析】：無(wú)第29題： The detective and his assistant have begun to ______ the mysterious murder. 　　 A) e through C) make over 　　 B) look into D) see to 【正確答案】：A【參考解析】：無(wú)第30題： Sadly, the Giant Panda is one of the many species now in danger of ______. 　　 A) extinction C) destruction 　　 B) migration D) extraction 【正確答案】：B【參考解析】：無(wú)二、閱讀理解第31題：In the wor